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Jaco's '63 Jazz Bass for sell???

#62
workdaddy said:
You would, huh? I'm sure you would. Well, You can start by navigating away from this thread. Then, get on the internet, there are lots of sources for real information, including facts, about the great John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III. Next, play bass for 20 or so years, and make sure you pickup the first couple years of Bass magazine. Don't forget your copies of Joni Mitchell, The Brian Melvin Trio, Herbie Hancock, and the book "The extraordinary and tragic life of Jaco Pastorius 'The Worlds greatest bass player'". Anything else?
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ok... having similar credentials and nearly the same vested interest in this area historical musicology, how come I don't conduct myself in the same manor. Please explain your stance to us.
 
#65
workdaddy said:
You would, huh? I'm sure you would. Well, You can start by navigating away from this thread. Then, get on the internet, there are lots of sources for real information, including facts, about the great John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III. Next, play bass for 20 or so years, and make sure you pickup the first couple years of Bass Player magazine. Don't forget your copies of Joni Mitchell, The Brian Melvin Trio, Herbie Hancock, and the book "The extraordinary and tragic life of Jaco Pastorius 'The Worlds greatest bass player'". Anything else?
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WOW...that just says ...thats just......WOW...thats all I can say.....:scowl:



Anyone call or email about the price? I emailed.....
 
#69
DeanT said:
BS alert. I'm sure if whoever has one of Jaco's basses was going to sell it they'd pick a much higher profile site like eBay, or even a "real" auction house like Christie's. How many people even know GBase exists? It's a scam.
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+1000

Thats what Im saying. I did email for the price and I asked what documentation they had to verify that it truly was one of Jacos basses. Seems to me if this was the real deal wouldnt it be at a real auction house like you said?
 
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#72
That bass is gonna be costly!:bassist:
I remember reading about a guy that had this bass for a while in BP years and years ago. Crap, what was that guys name??
I think he played with Buddy Guy. Greg something....

Edit: Greg Rzab and it's a different bass, a 1960. Sorry about that. Here's another post about Jaco's different basses.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1325532&postcount=6

Our very own Bruce
 
#80
j-raj said:
umm... did I not say Greg Rzab earlier? He got that bass, w/ no case and a pair of Jaco's Chuck T's (smelly and quite used).
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That was ages ago, way back in post #40. Who remember such things??;)

I'll post the Bass Player quote in full for everyone that may be interested:
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According to Kaufman, Jaco left it in New York’s Central Park shortly before his death. It hasn’t been seen since.


1960 Fender Jazz, SN 57308

Jaco’s main fretted Jazz Bass, a two-tone sunburst, of average weight and “very resonant” according to Kaufman. This was Jaco’s main bass on tour with Joni Mitchell; it can be seen and heard on her Shadows and Light album and DVD. Its whereabouts are unknown.


Early ’60s Fender Jazz, SN 82429

During his 1982 Word of Mouth tour of Japan, Jaco threw this bass into Hiroshima Bay; Ibanez Guitars then refinished it natural. Shigeru Uchiyama’s photographs of Jaco and this bass appear in promotional material for the live Twins and Invitation albums, on the back cover of Invitation, and on BP’s Jan/Feb ’91 cover. According to Kaufman, Jaco didn’t like this bass as much as the others. Its whereabouts are unknown.


1963 Fender Jazz, SN L14769

The opening shot of Jaco’s DCI instructional video, Modern Electric Bass, shows Jaco slotting the nut on this bass. The original neck was being repaired at the time, so Jaco installed a ’70s Fender Precision neck on the Jazz body. This bass wound up at Albert Molinaro’s Guitars R Us shop in Los Angeles and was sold to a collector with the original and the P-Bass necks.


1960 Fender Jazz, SN unavailable

Longtime Buddy Guy bassist Greg Rzab bought one of Jaco’s final Jazz Basses from the Pastorius family in 1994. Rzab played the bass, apparently used by Jaco during a six-month stretch of intense practicing in 1986, on Guy’s 1994 album Slippin’ In. “I used it on ‘Lover with a Feeling,’ and it was really alive in the studio—the notes and harmonics jumped out of that bass.” Greg eventually sold it to a good friend—a famous bassist who chooses to remain anonymous. “It’s in good hands and being kept safe.”


Acoustic 360

The Acoustic 360 amp, which debuted in 1968, featured a 200-watt power amp. The separate preamp had a built-in fuzz effect, and the large cabinet housed an 18" backward-firing speaker. According to Bobbing there was nothing like it in 1971, when he and Jaco, just out of their teens, saw South Florida bassist Carlos Garcia using one on a gig with Nemo Spliff. “The Acoustic had something special,” recalls Bobbing. “We talked about it, we loved it. We went down to Modern Music in Fort Lauderdale and put money down and got two of them immediately.”

In retrospect, the Acoustic was as important to the development of Jaco’s tone and technique as his Jazz Basses were. “The Acoustic held up better than a Sunn or an Ampeg fliptop B-15 could. Jaco could play an open E while he did intervals up the neck, harmonics, and his muted fingerfunk style, which required punch and clarity. The timing of that amp was important, because no one would have been able to get that particular sound without it. Jaco couldn’t have come out in ’62 and done the same thing with a Bassman amp or an Ampeg flip-top.” More important, Bobbing says, the combination of the ’62 fretless Jazz and the Acoustic 360 gave him the perfect acoustic-like warmth, too. “The 360’s big, vibrating cabinet was set up so it had a reflective sound without all the high end—not muffled, but without the bright, clanking speaker cone. At low volumes, with his fretless, he could make it sound like an upright.” Rumors continue to circulate regarding several of Jaco’s Acoustic 360s.


Special thanks to Bob Bobbing, Greg Rzab, David Page (for providing serial numbers of Jaco’s basses), John Paulus, Albert Molinaro, and Kevin Kaufman. Kevin Kaufman now operates Kauffman-Daenzer Instruments; he can be reached at (561) 832-1249 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Larry Breslin of Deerhead Guitars can be reached at (719) 576-4567.




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This is all correct I think.:)
 

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